So, my system was just offline for about 4 days because someone unplugged the sync module.

I had no idea because the only notifications are in the app, and I rarely open the app since I rarely need to, but it would be nice to have gotten a notification via email that it was offline.

I see through searches that there is no way to do this, but that there’s a third party solution, IFTTT. Does anyone have a link to a basic tutorial on how to set this up so I can get emailed if my system is offline? I couldn’t find one easily, and really the only thing I need is that one notification.

Cool concept ceedee, thank you for the idea. I’ll play around with that.

To your other point, though, email is real time and actionable, app notifications are not. They pop up when your phone is sitting in your pocket in a business meeting, and are gone by the time you look at it again… whereas an email will be there for you to see.

I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on that. I am not looking at my phone 24/7, but I am checking my email 24/7.

As I tell employees and others… you grab me in the hallway to ask me something, I may or may not be able to answer right then and there, Hopefully I can! But if I don’t have an immediate answer, then you best email me. Because the truth is that 85 other people are going to ask me questions before I even get back to my office, and the ones who I have an email from will jog my memory, and I’ll actually be able to respond in a timely manner.

As I read down through this thread, I was thinking there must be some sort of app that will do this. Thanks for detailing MacroDroid ceedee, I’d been planning on searching for similar, for one or two other things that I’d thought that would be cool, if I could do them. Been a bit busy, and put looking for it on a back burner. Now I don’t have to look, excellent.

Finally got a chance to play around with this, and unfortunately MacroDroid doesn’t seem to do anything. I set it up as you suggested, but when I pull the batteries out of a camera and let blink pop up a notification, it doesn’t actually send an email.

I might be missing something, but it appears to be set up the same way you’d shown above.

Yeah, did change it to “contains” to see if that works, but no luck. I actually just tried setting it to send with any alert from Blink, and it appears it just can’t send email… it’s triggering okay, just won’t send for some reason.